Study: Gunshot Wounds Cost Us Nearly $1 Billion in Hospital Bills Every Year
ugurhan/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Researchers have long known that the impacts of gun violence ripple out far beyond victims and their families. But the price we pay as a country can be hard to measure, because data is hard to come by. (And the National Rifle Association is…
It Took Nearly 50 Years, But New York Finally Just Decriminalized Abortion
A demonstrator holds up a banner saying “Keep Abortion Legal” in front of Trump International Hotel in New York City, on January 20, 2018. Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, pro-choice activists have pushed to reform abortion access in one of the country’s…
This New App Turns Opioid Users’ Phones Into Overdose Detectors
MattGush/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. According to a November report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdoses killed more than 70,000 people in 2017—a 10 percent increase from 2016. Synthetic opioids, the most common drug involved in overdoses that year, took nine lives for every 100,000…
Six-Year-Old Moira is One of the Sickest People in America. So Why is North Carolina Trying to Gut Her Health Care?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A monster snowstorm had just walloped North Carolina, and the city of Greensboro careened to a halt. Families were home building fires, sticking carrot noses in snowmen, sipping mugs of hot cocoa. Dan Smith, though, was worried. When he awoke that morning in January 2018…
Vaccine Studies Still Exclude Pregnant Women. That’s a Big Mistake.
Pregnant women stand in line to receive birth kits at a camp for Internally Displaced People in Kibati, Democratic Republic of Congo.Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On August 1, the governor of North Kivu, a province in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo, sent out a frenzied…
Kaiser Clinicians Say Kaiser’s Mental Health Care Is Awful
James Quigg/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the spring of 2012, Susan Futterman begged the clinicians at Kaiser Permanente in California to change her husband’s treatment. Fred Paroutaud, who at 57 years old was experiencing delusions and bouts of mania, had never experimented with drugs. But after he…